This Day, September 28, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z’l
September 28
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B.C.E.: Pompey the Great was assassinated on orders of King Ptolemy of Egypt
after landing in Egypt. While many Roman
leaders get low marks in terms of Jewish History, Pompey rates at a very low
level. He was the Roman who desecrated
the Holy of Holies and then mocked the Jews for praying to nothing. Besides which, his rival, Julius Caesar, had
comparatively positive relations with the Jews.
351:
The Eastern Roman army led by Constantius II defeated the western forces
supporting the usurper Magnentius at the Battle of Mursa Major. The Jews might
have been better off if Magentinus had won since, as can be seen by his
treatment of pagans, he was not a creature of Christianity. They certainly could not have been worse off
since Constantius II vigorously pursued the anti-Jewish policies begun by his
father Constantine.
1066:
William the Conqueror invaded England.
The first verifiable Jewish presence in England began with William who,
in spite of opposition from the Church, allowed Jews from Rouen, France, to
settle in his newly won kingdom.
1105:
Twelve-year-old Simon of Hauteville, the heir of Roger
I of Sicily, after whose conquest of Sicily Jews were found to be living in
Syracuse, Messina and Catania and whose wife was reportedly a member of the
Pierleoni family which “was baptized in the first half of the 11th
century, passed away today
1187:
After two days of heavy fighting the forces of Saladin begin to breach the
walls of Jerusalem as the Crusaders make a last ditch to hold on to their most
important conquest. (Editor’s note – reminds me of two usurpers trying to lay
claim to property that belongs to a third party.)
1197:
The Holy Roman Emperor, Henry VI, died. During his reign outbreaks of violence
aimed at the Jews took in an area that included the districts along the Rhine
and in Vienna itself. Henry was also the
Emperor who held King Richard I of England for ransom after the Third
Crusade. The Jewish community in England
“was forced to contribute toward the king's ransom 5,000 marks, more than three
times as much as the contribution of the City of London.” In other words, Henry not only would not
protect the Jews in his own realm, his greed played a key role in bankrupting
the Jews living beyond the boundaries of his power.
1238:
King James I, of Aragon, conquers the Kingdom of Valencia. This is the same King James who presided over
the debate Pablo Christiani and Nachmanides.
In a departure of from the norm, Nachmanides won the debate and King
James awarded Nachmanides a prize and declared that never before had he heard
"an unjust cause so nobly defended."
1251:
King Jaime I declared, "No Jews will hold office in the Kingdom of
Valencia." The following year Jews were banned from office in all of
Catalan and Aragon.
1394:
Pedro de Luna elevated to the papacy as Benedict XII whom the Council of
Constance which deposed him in 1415 as having “caused much suffering to the
Jews”
https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/2924-benedict-xiii-pedro-de-luna
1425: Queen Bianca, who in 1415 expelled the Jews from
Vizzini, began her reign as Queen of Navarre.
1494:
Bernardino da Feltre passed away. Born
Martin Tomitano in 1439, he was a priest and religious Italian of Friars Minor.
He became a priest in 1463. In his religious fanaticism, he railed against the
Jews who deemed them the murderers of Christ, and was among those that caused
the most deaths in the Italian Jewish community of the time. In 1475, in
Trento, he reportedly delivered a series of anti-Jewish sermons that led to 15
members of the local Jewish community being sentenced to death. The Jews were
falsely accused of the death of Simon, a boy found dead in the Jewish Quarter.
He was recognized as a saint by the Catholic Church for his alleged martyrdom
in 1588. In 1965, the beatification process was canceled because of the
unfounded historical accuracy of the story.
1533(9th
of Tishrei, 5294): Erev of Yom Kippur; Kol Nidre
1577:
The Sultan ordered a census of the Jews of Safed for the purposes of raising
taxes.
1614:
The Emperor ordered the arrest of Vincenz Fettmilch who led an uprising in
Frankfurt that included the murder of Jews and the looting of the Judengasse.
1615,
Johann Friedrich, Archbishop of Bremen that if the Hamburg council imposed a
special Jewish safe-conduct on his protégé and court Jew "Solomon
Herscheider, Jewish physician living at Stade," who had hitherto been
permitted to conduct business and to trade in Hamburg without taxation, the
Portuguese of the latter city would no longer be allowed free passage through
his territory.”
https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/13981-stade
1619:
In Amsterdam, Jacob Israel Belmonte, the Portuguese born sone of Andre Belmonte
and Catarina Moniz and his was Simcha Israel Belmonte gave birth to Mozes
Belmonte.
1634:
Comus, John Milton’s work dealing
with the struggle between good and evil appeared for the first time. He would tackle the topic again in his more
famous work, Paradise Lost. In the meantime, Milton joined other writers
of his time including John Locke in writing in support of a Jewish state. This was in line with Christian views about
the conditions needed for the Second Coming.
1662:
In San Miguel, Spain, Felipe Nieto, the Venice born son of Phinehas Nieto, and
his wife Maria Flores Viya gave birth Miguel Nieto Viya
1753(29th
of Elul, 5513): Erev Rosh Hashanah; English Jews can look forward to becoming
full citizens of the realms thanks to the recently passed “Jews Bill.”
1770(9th
of Tishrei, 5531): Kol Nidre
1755(23rd
of Tishrei, 5516): Simchat Torah
1764(2nd
of Tishrei, 5525): Second Day of Rosh Hashana
1771(20th
of Tishrei, 5532): Shabbat Chol Hamoed Sukkoth
1772(1st
of Tishrei, 5533): Just a week after the treaty partitioning Poland among the
Russians, Prussians and Russians is signed Polish Jews observe Rosh Hashanah
under one of three different rulers.
1774(23rd
of Tishrei, 5535): Simchat Torah
1776(15th
of Tishrei, 5637): As the British begin
their seven year occupation of New York during the American Revolution, many of
the city’s Jews are not in the city to celebrate Sukkoth having fled because
they support independence and are considered to be rebels.
1781:
The Battle of Yorktown during which battalions led by Alexander Hamilton took
Redoubt Number 10 began today.
1781:
Mordechai Abrams, the commander of a militia company, Jacob Cohen, the Captain
of a cavalry company, Moses Myers, a major in the Virginia militia and Samuel
Myers were among the troops George Washington led from Williamsburg
to Yorktown for the climactic clash with Cornwallis.
1783(2nd
of Tishrei): Second Day of Rosh Hashana
1787(16th
of Sukkoth, 5548): Second Day of Sukkoth
1787(16th
of Sukkoth, 5584): Reyna Hays, the
daughter of Judah Hays who married Isaac Touro in Newport, RI in 1773 passed
away today in Boston.
1790(20th
of Tishrei, 5551): Sixth Day of Sukkot
1791(29th
of Elul, 5551): Erev Rosh Hashanah
1791:
France became the first country in Europe to emancipate its entire Jewish
population which at that time was approximately was made up of 40,000 people.
1793(22nd
of Tishrei, 5554) Shabbat and Shmini Atzeret
1795(15th
of Tishrei, 5556): As the French battle the European monarchies to save their
revolution Jews observe Sukkoth
1797:
Date on the will of Israel Abbady, the former chazzan from Barbados, a copy of
which can be found in the American Jewish Archives in Cincinnati, Ohio.
1798(18th
of Tishrei, 5559): Fourth Day of Sukkoth
1798:
“Boston businessman Moses Michael Hays, the New York born son of Dutch Jewish
immigrants Judah Hays and Rebecca Michaels, husband of Rachel Myers and
brother-in-law to New York silversmith Myer Myers and Rabbi Isaac de Abraham
Touro who was a supporter of the American Revolution and founder of the
Massachusetts Bank which survives today as the Bank of America wrote to George
President George Washington
https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/05-04-02-0068
1799(28th
of Elul, 5560): Parashat Nitzavim; last Shabbat of 5559
1800(9th
of Tishrei, 5561): Erev Yom Kippur; Kol Nidre chanted for the last time during
the Presidency of John Adams.
1801(21st
of Tishrei, 5562): Hoshana Raba celebrated for the first time during reign of
Czar Alexander I.
1802(2nd
of Tishrei, 5563): Second Day of Rosh Hashana
1804(23rd
of Tishrei, 5565): Simchat Torah
1804:
In Virginia, L. Joseph & Company is scheduled to be closed today because of
“their uniform practice to do no business on days ordained by Mosaic Law to be
holy.”
1804:
In Bavaria, “Yiddel Abraham Alexander” and Loeb Fleisher gave birth to Meyer
Fleisher the husband Caroline Blum with whom he had ten children
1805(5th
of Tishrei, 5566): Parashat Vayeilech; Shabbat Shuva
1806(16th
of Tishrei, 5567): Second Day of Sukkot
1810(29th
of Elul, 5570): Erev Rosh Hashanah
1810(29th
of Elul, 5570): Abraham Goldsmid passed away.
Born in Holland in or around 1756, he went to England with his father
where he joined his brother Benjamin in a series of financial transaction that
led to the creating of the banking house Baring Goldsmid. He lost his fortune
in currency manipulation involving the East India Company.
1811(10th
of Tishrei, 5572): Yom Kippur
1812(22nd
of Tishrei, 5573, Shemini Atzeret
1812:
Birthdate of German native Mina Putzel, the wife of Abraham Lebrecht with whom
she had ten children.
1816(6th
of Tishrei, 5577): Parashat Vaeyeilich; Shabbat Shuvah
1818:
Two days after he had passed away, 18-year-old Alexander Levy, the son of David
and Hannah Levy was buried today at “Brompton (Fulham Road) Jewish Cemetery.
1820:
Birthdate of Rabbi Henry Kuttner, the husband of Hannah Kutner and the leader
of United Hebrew Congregation in St. Louis which had held its first Rosh Hashana
service in 1837.
1821(2nd
of Tishrei, 5582): Second Day of Rosh Hashanah
1822:
In Germany, “Leopold Joseph Ullman and Judith Klara Lob Ullman gave birth to
Emanuel Ullman the husband of Sarah Ullman and the father of Clara, Leo and
Solomon Ullman.
1823(23rd
of Tishrei, 5584): Simchat Torah
1823:
Pope Leo XII was chosen to lead the Catholic Church. Leo was a reactionary seeking to do away with
the lingering effects of the French Revolution and the wave of liberalism that
it had unleashed. He did pass harsh laws
aimed that made life in the ghetto even more miserable for the Jews than it had
been. But he also attacked other forces
that he connected with heresy, modernity or any deviation from accepted
conservative Catholic doctrine.
According to some commentators, his death was not an overly mourned
event in the Christian world.
1823:
Birthdate of French Painter Alexandre Cabanel who instructed Jewish artist
Solomon Joseph Solomon.
1824:
At Great Yarmouth Elizabeth Turner and historian Sir Francis Palgrave (Francis
Ephraim Cohen) gave birth to their first son, poet and critic, Francis Turner
Palgrave.
1825(16th
of Tishrei, 5586): Second Day of Sukkoth observed for the last time during the
presidency of John Q. Adams.
1827:
In Brandenburg, Prussia, Abraham and Sophia Blumenberg gave birth to their 21st
child Leopold Blumenberg the decorated Prussian military officer who settled in
1854 settled in Baltimore, MD where he would organize the Fifth Maryland
Infantry Regiment for the Union Army and climax his military career at the
Battle of Antietam where, as a Colonel leading his regiment, he was severely
wounded by a Rebel sharpshooter.
1828(20th
of Tishrei, 5589): Sixth Day of Sukkot
1829(1st
of Tishrei, 5590): Rosh Hashanah
1830:
Ferdinand I, a “tragic monarch who was ultimately was forced to abdicate
because of his mental deficiencies” began his reign as King of Hungary until he
was forced to abdicated during the Revolutions of 1848 which temporarily
brought a promise of real reform including the removal of disabilities for Jews
living in several European countries.
1835:
Joseph Phillips married Charlotte Mozely at Hambro Synagogue today.
1838(9th
of Tishrei, 5599): Erev Yom Kippur; Kol Nidre
1839(20th
of Tishrei, 5600): Shabbat Chol Ha Moed Sukkoth
1839(20th
of Tishrei, 5600): Manis (Morris) Jacobs
passed away. Born in 1782 at Amsterdam
he made his to New Orleans where he as the founder and first President of
Congregation Shanagarai Chesed. Although
he did not have smicha, he also served as the congregation’s first
“rabbi."
1840(1st
of Tishrei, 5601): Rosh Hashanah
1840:
Services were held for the first time in Woolwich, UK at the house of Mrs.
Myer.
1840:
Birthdate Karl Bettelheim, the Hungarian born Austrian born physician whose
area of expertise was “the pathology of the heart and blood vessels.”
1841: Birthdate of French statesman Georges
Clemenceau. The world remembers him as
the Tiger who served as Prime Minister of France in the last years of World War
I, providing the French with the will to fight on against the Germans. Along with Britain’s Lloyd George and
America’s Woodrow Wilson, he dictated the terms of the Versailles Treaty. But Jews remember him as a defender of Alfred
Dreyfus when the Jewish Colonel and the Jews of France stood charges as
traitors.
1844(15th
of Tishrei, 5605): Sukkoth
1845(26th
of Elul, 5606): Hungarian born Talmudist and author Michael Kittseer whose
works included “Salme Nedabah” passed away today in Presburg.
https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/9357-kittseer-michael
1848(1st
of Tishrei, 5609): Rosh Hashanah
1850:
The United States Navy abolished flogging as a form of punishment. One of America's early Jewish naval officers
played a key role in this change. Uriah
Phillips Levy had abolished flogging aboard his ship back in the 1830's, an
action that led to his court martial.
However, the decision was overturned by President Tyler and he was
reinstated. Levy commanded the
Mediterranean Squadron of the U.S. Navy and reached the rank of Commodore (in
the old Navy, this was rank just below Admiral). Levy passed away in 1862. He was an in awe of President Jefferson. Monticello, Jefferson's home, had been sold
to pay off his debts. Levy purchased the
home with intent of restoring it as shrine to Jefferson. The Levy family maintained Monticello until
it was turned over the Jefferson Memorial Associate in the 1920's.
1850(22nd
of Tishrei, 5611): Shemini Atzeret
1851(2nd
of Tishrei, 5612): 2nd Day of Rosh Hashana
1851:
In Vienna, Isak and Anna Teller gave birth to Ludwig Teller, the husband Nanet
Teller and Natalie Teller.
1851:
Hermann de Stern, a Portuguese baron and banker and the head of Stern Bros., of
London, Paris and Belgium, and Julia Goldsmid gave birth to Herbert Stern, 1st
Baron Michelham
1852(15th
of Tishrei, 5613): Sukkot
1854:
In Eschau, Bavaria, Simon Michael and Sarah Ottenheimer gave birth to Elias
Michael, the husband of Rachel Stix, the vice president of Rice-Stix Dry Goods
Company, the St. Louis, MO Company founded by William Stix which by the time of
the “1904 World’s Fair would be the city’s largest business.”
1855(16th
of Tishrei, 5616): Second Day of Sukkoth
1857(10th
of Tishrei, 5618): Yom Kippur
1857:
In Sacramento, CA, Asher and Hannah Bien Hamburger gave birth to Harvard
trained attorney David Asher Hamburger, the husband of Katherine Hamburger and
father of David, Allen and Howard Hamburger.
1857:
New York Times reported today on the observance of Yom Kippur saying that, “the
custom among the Jews” is to meet together, “confessing with penitence their
transgressions, fasting for many hours and refraining from all manual
labor…Today is also the day of reconciliation…between those whom occasion of
ill-filling may have arisng during the year and of the renewing of fraternal
relations.” The observance will last all
day until the “first three stars of evening show themselves” at which time the
fasting comes to an end “and the reign of feasting and rejoicing” follows.
1858:
“Charge of Bigamy” published today reported that a 30-year-old Hebrew named
Samuel Morris has been arrested on charges of “stealing wearing apparel from
the boarding houses of Mrs. Schrimer and Mrs. Wardell. He had lived at both of
these locations and his wife was found wearing a silk vest which was part of
the stolen property. Mr. Morris may also be guilty of bigamy.
1858:
The "Personals" column published today reported that the Jews of
Boston have adopted a series of resolutions thanking Parliament for the
admission of Mr. Rothschild.
1859:
Eighty-year-old German historian and geographer Carl Ritter who “ considered
Josephus, a Jewish historian from the 1st century AD, to be a valuable source
for understanding the geography of ancient Judea, but cautioned that his
writings should be used with care due to potential biases and exaggerations
aimed at promoting the Jewish people to the Greeks and Romans” passed away
today.
1860(12th
of Tishrei, 5621): Leon Maness Ritterband, a native of Poland who married
Benvenida Solis in New York in 1835 passed away today in New York City.
1860:
“On Visiting Barnum’s Little Theatre” published today shows the impact of the
Bible on popular American culture as it reported that “the earliest dramatic
efforts of the Middle Ages, which were always taken from Scriptural subjects,
not unnaturally passes across the mind, as the title of the piece to be
represented is announced, -- "Joseph and his brethren." A portion of
the Scripture narrative is mingled with the numerous other events which succeed
each other with startling rapidity and are purely imaginative. There are
Babylonians -- including the King -- by the score among the dramatis personae,
and a corresponding number of Jews and Egyptians. The piece is placed on the
stage in a gorgeous manner, and evidently gratifies, not only the children, but
the parents also.”
1862(4th
of Tishrei, 5623): Tzom Gedaliah
1863(15th
of Tishrei, 5624): As Union forces regroup after the Battle of Chickamauga,
Jews observe Sukkoth
1864:
Joseph Abraham Britton married Annie Joseph today.
1867: Toronto became the capital of Canada. At this time Toronto had a Jewish population
of about 200 people. The community
supported one synagogue called Toronto Hebrew Congregation-Holy Blossom Temple.
Holy Blossom was Orthodox but would later join the Reform movement. The Jewish
community has grown to over 150,000 and, along with Montreal, is one of the two
leading centers for Jewish life in Canada.
1868:
In Staufen Leopold and Louise Kahn gave birth to Baruch Kahn
1869(23rd
of Tishrei, 5630): Jews celebrated Simchat Torah for the first time during the
Presidency of U.S. Grant
1870(3rd
of Tishrei, 5631): Tzom Gedaliah
1870:
In Novaya Michailovka, Russia, Yitzchak and Beyla Shapira gave birth Avraham
Shaipria, “the legendary pioneer shomer of Petach Tikva.
1873: Establishment of Temple B'nai Jeshurun. It is the oldest
of Des Moines' synagogues. Many members of this congregation are buried in Des
Moines' oldest Jewish cemetery, Emanuel Jewish.
1873: In Michigan, Congregation Beth El officially affiliated with
the Union of American Hebrew Congregations
1874(17th of Tishrei, 5635): Third Day of Sukkoth
1874: In Bialystok, Moses and Feiga (Fanny) Bayuk, gave birth to
Meyer Bayuk the
founder along with his brothers Samuel and Max what became “Bayuk Cigars, Inc.,
the manufacturer of ‘Phillies’” and the husband of
Julia Bayuk and Florence Bayuk.
1874: “Feast of Tabernacles” published today described the
observances on the second day of Sukkoth, including the fact that the Reform
only observe the first and last days of the festival while the Orthodox observe
the second day in the same manner as the first day. According to the story, the
entire service was “conducted in accordance with the command found in the 23rd
chapter of Leviticus. The congregants
were dressed in white, recited the Hallel and waved the branches of palm,
myrtle and willow as well as the citron.
1875: Birthdate of Artur Hahn who was transported from Prague to
Terezin in 1942 and then on to Baranovici where he was murdered at the age of
64.
1875(28th of Elul, 5635): Sixty-eight-year-old Leopold
Hirsch, the German born son of Lea and Simon Seev Hirsch and the husband of
Therese Tolzele Hirsch passed away.
1876(10th of Tishrei, 5637): Yom Kippur observed for
the last time during the Presidency of U.S. Grant.
1876: In New Orleans, Dora Kohn, and Charles Simeon gave birth to
Tulane University educated business executive Leon Charles Simon, the husband
of Fannie Merz and first vice president of Kohn, Weil and Simon, Inc. who was a
member of the board of directors of Isidore Neuman School and the Jewish
Children’s Home.
1877: Reverend T. De Witt
Talmage delivered a lecture in the Brooklyn Tabernacle entitled “The Admission
of Jews Into Gentile Society” and “the Death of the Mormon.” He began by discussing the tempest created
last summer by the Jewish being banned from one of the leading hotels. He presented an argument that Gentiles were
no better than Jews and Jews were no better than Gentiles. The decision to ban the Jews was based on
business and should be left to stand as a business matter. He then went on to condemn Brigham Young and
the Mormons.
1877(21st of Tishrei, 5638): Hoshana Rabah
1877: Today was market day in Bayard Street in NYC. Reportedly, throngs of Polish Jews were busy
buying geese and chickens from one of a multiplicity of buildings that have
signs saying “Kosher” their windows
1878(1st of Tishrei, 5639): Rosh Hashanah
1878: In Cincinnati, OH, “Alexander and Jennie Wolf (Greenfield)
gave birth to University of Cincinnati trained “physician, bacteriologist and
philatelist Leo Greenfield Tedesche
1878: Today, four thousand worshippers attended services Temple
Emanu-El on New York’s Fifth Avenue.
Rabbi Gustav Gottheil led the service and delivered a sermon in
English. The sermon was based on a verse
from Genesis, “So he sent his brethren away, and they departed, and he said
unto them, see that you fall not by the wayside.” Professor Davis served as
organist as well as music director for the service.
1878: It was reported today that several agencies in New Orleans
were soliciting funds to aid those suffering from Yellow Fever including the
Hebrew Benevolent Association.
1879: In Pittsburg, PA, Charles J and Esther (Rosenthal) Stein
gave birth to University of Pittsburgh trained attorney Abraham Cass Stein, a
member of the Pennsylvania State Legislature and the husband of Lillian
Friedman whom he married in San Francisco in 1915.
https://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/legis/BiosHistory/MemBio.cfm?ID=4064&body=H
https://peoplelegacy.com/abraham_cass_stein-7r6k2A[ML1]
1880(23rd of Tishrei, 5641): For the last time Jews
celebrate Simchat Torah under President Hays.
1880: In Chicago, Joseph and Miriam Cahn gave birth to Yale
graduate and broker Morton David Cahn, the husband of Julia Elizabeth Cahn.
1881: Forty-eight Jews who had arrived at Castle Garden yesterday
will be sent to Chicago and Toledo today by a recently formed committee of New
York Jews that is charged with meeting their initial needs in the United
States. The group includes ten families
and most of the workers are tailors and farmers.
1882(15th of Tishrei): Sukkoth
1883: In Luzern, Switzerland, Abraham Erlanger, the German born
son of Simon (Schimele) Erlanger and Rosine Reele Erlanger, and his wife Bertha
Bela Erlanger gave birth to Yakob Yaakov Erlanger, the “husband of Roseli Raizy
Erlanger and father of Gitta Nebenzahl; Heinrich (Heinrich, Heiri) Erlanger;
Samuel Erlanger; Berta Bejla Rosengarten and Elchonon Erlanger…”
1884(9th of Tishrei, 5645): Erev Yom Kippur
1884: It was reported today that Austrian Emperor is prepared to
raise Herr Hirsch, the Chief Rabbi of Prague “to noble rank.”
1884: The case of Abraham Jacobs and Jacob Jacobs, two Jews who
had charged each other with assault was heard at the Tombs Police Court
today. Since there were no other
witnesses and each person’s story had equal weight, charges were dismissed.
1886: In Baltimore, Jennie R. Saks, Washington, DC born daughter
of Elizabeth and Herman Rohr and he husband Andrew Saks gave birth to Leila Sakes,
the wife of Louis Ranger and Edgar Joseph Meyer and the mother of Jane Stern.
1887(10th of Tishrei, 5648): Yom Kippur
1887: Birthdate of Galicia born journalist and publisher Zusye
(Zigmund) Haber who settled in Vienna during WW I where he lived until his
death in 1938.
1887: In Hungary, Amali Heller and Samuel Miller gave birth to NYU
trained dentist and oral surgeon Simon Miller the husband of Helen Kornfield
and man-of-letters as can be by his
contributions “to Hebrew, Yiddish, Hungarian, German and English publications
as well as his services Editor and publisher the Hebrew monthly Apiryon.
1888(23rd of Tishrei, 5649): Simchat Torah
1889: Birthdate of Berlin native Hans Behrendt, “the actor,
screenwriter and director” who was murdered at Auschwitz in 1942.
1888: In Philadelphia, Hannah Rottenberg and Morris Rosenbaum gave
birth to University of Pennsylvania trained attorney Samuel Rawlins Rosenbaum,
the husband of Rosamond May Rawlins and vice president of Albert M. Greenfield
and Company who served as an assistant Judge Advocate General in the U.S. Army
during World War I.
1890(14th of Tishrei, 5651): Erev Sukkoth
1890: Rabbi Gustav Gottheil led services this evening at Temple
Emanu-El where “the pulpit was festooned
with garlands of flowers and decorated with fruits and blossoming plants” that
included a “majestic palm…a myrtle and a willow.”
1890: Birthdate of Jennie Paykel Krasnick, the daughter of Abraham
Paykel and the wife of Sam Krasnick, the Russian born American clothing
merchant who in 1906 moved to Sheboygan where he was a leader of the Jewish
community.
1891: Minister Smith leaves for St. Petersburg where he will
present President Harrison’s concern about Russian treatment of their Jewish
population. This represents a reversal of the behavior of American officials
posted to the Czar’s government. Secretary of the Legation Wurtz has exerted
pressure against any move to improve the conditions of Russian Jews and “other
oppressed classes with whom the great-hearted American people really
sympathize.
1891: Jewish Emancipation Day, marking the 100th
anniversary of the National Assembly’s vote to grant full citizenship to the
Jews of France, was celebrated with an afternoon and evening of merriment at
Sulzer’s Harlem River Park.
1892: The annual reported of the Trustees of the Home for Aged and
Infirm Hebrews, a summary of which was published today showed there are 160
people living at the facility and that the death rate during the past year “was
the lowest in the history of the institution.”
1892: In Russia, The May Laws were amended so that Jews having the
“right of residence might rent rooms or might build houses of their own on land
leased for the purpose.”
1892: Judge Henry M. Goldfogle chaired tonight’s meeting of those
interested in providing assistance to those who suffered losses during the
Ludlow Street Fire and $300 was raised with more help promised by Jacob H.
Schiff and the United Hebrew Charities.
1893: In Vienna, Ludwig Geiringer and the former Martha Wetheimer
gave birth to Hilda Geiringer, who overcame religious prejudice and sexism to
become a world class mathematician.
https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/geiringer-hilda
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20191031-hilda-geiringer-mathematician-who-fled-the-nazis
1893: Mrs. Annie Bauman came to post bail for Max Kestenbaum and
Ernest Sachs, her confederates in a scheme to swindle her husband Jacob Baumann
the superintendent of the Engle, Heller & Co, a wholesale liquor business.
1894: Birthdate of Lower East Side native and tailor turned
clothing store owner Abe Stark who gained fame with a gimmick at Ebbets Field
and went on to serve as President of the New York City Council and borough
president of Brooklyn.
1895(10th of Tishrei, 5656): Yom Kippur
1897: In the Ukraine, Faiga and Samuel Shlomo Boorstein gave birth
to future New Yorker Meyer Boorstein, the husband Esther Boorstein and father
of Bernard Boorstein.
1898: Birthdate of St. Louis, MO native and Northwestern
University trained Chicago real estate attorney Maxim Hirsch.
1895: In Pinsk, “Jewish Russian gold tycoon Grigori Benenson” who
was related to the Rothschild family and his wife gave birth Flora Benenson who
married Harold Solomon and gained fame as Flora Solomon the mother of Peter
Benenson, the founder of Amnesty International and “the first woman hired to
improve working conditions at Marks and Spencer in London.”
1895: Communicants and Voters” published today provides a snapshot
of religious affiliations in the United States where there are twenty million
“church communicants” of whom 130,313 are Jews placing them second from last on
the tally followed only by the Friends (Quakers) with 107,208
1896(21st of Tishrei, 5657): Seventh Day of Sukkoth;
Hoshana Raba
1896: Birthdate of Russian native Abraham Edelman, the American
rabbi who came to the United States in 1922.
http://old.virtualjudaica.com/Item/28522/Letter_by_R._Abraham_Isaac_Edelman
1897(2nd of Tishrei, 5658): 2nd day of Rosh
Hashanah
1897: Two days after he had passed away, 56 year old Isaac Joseph,
the son of Solomon Joseph and the former Priscilla Samuel, was buried today at
the “Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.”
1897: In what is now modern-day Ukraine Benjamin and Yetta Kramer
gave birth to Samuel Noah Kramer the husband of the former Mildred Tokarsky and
the award winning authority on Sumerian literature and culture passed. (As
reported by John Noble Wilford)
1897: The Philadelphia
Inquirer described the observance of Rosh Hashanah in Camden, NJ where the
Jews held services in Furey’s Hall at the corner of Fourth Street and Kaighn
Avenue.
1898: Birthdate of Boston native, Samuel Morris Gordon, the
chemist who earned degrees at Tufts, Iowa State and the University of Wisconsin
1899: Seventy-seven-year-old Isaac Bierman who is the Director of
the Home for Aged and Infirm Hebrews and his wife celebrated their golden
wedding anniversary today.
1899: Birthdate of Boris Yefimov, a Russian cartoonist who would
“despised by Hitler and beloved by Stalin” and “who for 70 years and 70,000
drawings” would wield “his talent as a keen sword to advance the goals of his
country.”
1900: Nathan Straus’s Alvez, one of the two fastest trotters on
the Speedway, won a three-heat brush on the Harlem course this afternoon which
resulted in the loser having “to contribute $200 to the Galveston Relief Fund.”
1901: Today, Macy’s, the New York department story owned by Isidor
and Nathan Straus sold men’s clerical suits for $11.79 and $13.26 which the
emporium advertised as saving the customer from “$6.00 to $12.00 on each suit.”
1901(15th of Tishrei, 5662): Sukkoth
1901:
In Chicago, “Goldie (Drell) and Samuel Paley” the millionaire cigar maker who
moved his family to Philadelphia gave birth to William S. Paley, the University
of Pennsylvania graduate who took control of the fledging CBS radio network in
the 1920's. He would make it a
competitor of the dominant NBC before shifting CBS to television where it would
be the dominant network for several decades.
Under Paley, CBS represented the gamut of American culture from the
lowbrow of I Love Lucy to the highbrow of Edward R. Murrow. One thing that it never did was become a
Jewish media outlet, despite what anti-Semitic critics might have said.
https://www.nytimes.com/1990/10/27/obituaries/william-s-paley-builder-of-cbs-dies-at-89.html
1902(26
of Elul, 5662): Sixty-eight-year-old Barend Joseph Stokvis, “the professor
pharmacodynamics and internal medicine” passed away today. (See Jews and
Medicine by Frank Henick)
1902:
Sir Elly Kadoorie and his wife gave birth industrialist and philanthropist Sir
Horace Kadoorie, the brother of Sir Lawrence Kadoorie and the nephew of Sir
Ellis Kadoorie.
1903(7th
of Tishrei, 5664): Seventy-six-year-old Italian patriot Enrico Guastalla who
fought with Garibaldi during the wars that created the modern Italian nation
passed away today at Milan.
1904(19th
of Tishrei, 5665): Chol Ha Moed Sukko
1904(19th
of Tishrei, 5665): Eighty-two-year-old Dr. Phineas J. Horowitz who served as
Chief of the Navy Bureau of Medicine passed away today
http://www.fau.edu/library/gen-adm68.htm
1905:
“Jacob Litt Is Dead” published today included a description of Litt’s rise from
program boy at the Grand Opera House in Milwaukee to successful New York
theatrical manager whose estate is estimated to be worth more than a million
dollars.
1906(9th
of Tishrei, 5667): Erev Yom Kippur
1906:
Louis and Rebecca Katz Katcher gave birth to Samuel Katcher, the husband of
Bessie Starlor Katcher with whom he had three children.
1907:
In Chevreuse, Ile-de-France, France, Leopold and Lena Pilichowski gave birth to
Thea Ursula Doniach and Amnon Vivien Pilley
1907:
Eighty-one-year-old, Frederick I, the Grand Duke of Baden, a supporter of the
Zionist movement who arranged an audience with the Kaiser when he visited
Palestine in 1898, passed away today.
1907:
“A group of Poalei Zion members gathered at Yitzhak Ben-Zvi's unfurnished
apartment in Jaffa apartment formed Bar-Giora, a Jewish self-defense
organization named for Simon Bar Giora, one of the leaders of the Jewish Revolt
against the Romans. The founding members were Israel Shochat, Yitzhak Ben-Zvi,
Mendel Portugali, Israel Giladi, Alexander Zaid, Yehezkel Hankin, Yehezkel
Nissanov and Moshe Givoni. The goal of the organization was settling the land
and guarding it from Arab attackers. Previously, Arab guards had been hired for
protection. Many Jews refused to employ members of Bar- Giora fearing it would
cause more friction with the local Arabs.. Bar-Giora chose a line from Yaakov
Cohen's poem, Habiryonim as its motto.
"In fire and blood did Judea fall; in blood and fire Judea shall
rise." This was one of the mottos of the Jewish defenders during the
pogroms in the Russian Empire. Members swore an oath of secrecy, discipline,
selfless service, devotion to the cause and loyalty. All decisions had to be
ratified by unanimous vote. All members were required to have least a year's
experience in farming. Guarding was put off until the members of the
organization had gained enough experience and knowledge of the land. When
Hashomer was formed in 1909, Bar-Giora was absorbed into it.
1908(3rd
of Tishrei, 5669): Tzom Gedaliah observed for the last time during the
Presidency of Teddy Roosevelt who enjoyed wide, popular support among the Jews
of the United States.
1909: Birthdate of Al Capp. Born in New Haven, Connecticut, the
cartoonist gained fame with the creation of "Li'l Abner." Among the creatures that inhabited the world
of Li'l Abner were the Shmoos, little ghost like creatures that when cooked,
tasted like any food you would desire.
Many said that the concept reminded them of the Biblical manna.
http://lil-abner.com/family-album/
1910:
The ninth biennial convention of the Order of Knights of Joseph opened at Rock
Island, Illinois.
1910:
Birthdate of Ángel Sanz Briz “a Spanish diplomat who served under Francoist
Spain during World War and saved the lives of some five thousand Hungarian Jews
from deportation to Auschwitz” earning him the appellation "the angel of Budapest"
1911:
The Steamer Rhone arrived at Sfax, Tunisia “to-night loaded down with foreign
residents from Tripoli” who say “that they left Tripoli because of reports that
the ribes in the interior are in a state of effervescence and threatening to
descend upon the city and massacre the Europeans and the Jews.”
1912(17th
of Tishrei, 5673): Shabbat Shel Sukkoth
1912:
In Washington, DC, the Fifteenth International Congress of Hygiene and
Demography which Henry Adler of Dallas, TX,
Max Goltman of Memphis, TN, Nathan Straus of NY and J.G. Lipman, a
Professor at Rutgers were attending as official delegates came to an end.
1912:
Founding of the Jewish Consumptive Relief Associate of California whose purpose
was to support a “sanitarium for the treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis and
whose members included H. M. Silverberg, Peter N. Kahn, Irving Hellman and
Chaim Shapiro
1912(17th
of Tishrei, 5673): Mrs. Elka Kahn passed away today.
1912:
Birthdate of Solomon “Sol” Koptiko, the New York born CCNY Center who went on
to play professional ball after leaving college in 1936.
1913:
Birthdate of psychoanalyst Albert Ellis a founder of the now widely practiced
cognitive behavioral therapy whose blunt advice to patients included “forget
god-awful pasts, face fears and change actions and who passed away on July 24,
2007 at the age of 93.
1913(26th
of Elul, 5673): Eighty-seven-year-old Rachel Etting Cohen , the daughter of
Kitty Etting and Richmond native Benjamin Cohen who had married in 1819 passed
away today.
1914:
Seventy-five Jewish refugees arrived in Philadelphia “from the European war
zone” and were taken to the Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid Society
headquarters at 299 Broadway.
1914:
“Answers Jewish Protest” published today provides Postmaster Morgan’s reply to
a letter from the East Side Protective Association “protesting against the
sub-clerks and sub-carriers of Jewish parentage being forced to work on Yom
Kippur” in which he says he is following the same policy as in the past i.e.
leave without pay will be granted to those whom apply except in cases where the
demand of the workload requires their presence in which case failure to report
as requested “will be regarded as insubordination and dealt with as such.”
1914:
“Hebrew Federation Officers” published today included a list of those elected
to lead the New Jersey Federal of Young Men’s and Young Women’s Hebrew
Associations
1915: Birthdate of Ethel Rosenberg.
She would join her husband Julius as part of America’s most famous
husband and wife spy team. They would
both be executed in 1953.
1915:
It was reported today that Louis D. Brandeis was opposed to the conference
proposed by the American Jewish Committee which is to be held on October 24
saying that it “would not only be futile but dangerous” because “its
deliberations would secret” so any decision “would lack the united support of
the Jews” of the United States.
1916(1st
of Tishrei, 5677): Rosh Hashanah
1916:
At Temple Israel, “Rabbi M. H. Harris spoke on ‘War and Life’ and urged that”
the United States “should become militant only for peace.
1916:
At Temple Beth-El, “Rabbi Samuel Schulman urged the Jews to agree among
themselves as to what they wanted before making demands upon other nations”
during his sermon on “The Problem of the Jew is the Problem of the World.”
1916:
Birthdate of Yizhar Smilansky who was better known by his pen name Samech Yizhar He
was an Israeli writer and a great innovator in modern Hebrew literature.
His pen name S. Yizhar was given to him by the poet and editor Yitzhak Lamdan,
when in 1938 he published Yizhar's first story “Ephraim Goes Back to Alfalfa”
in his literary journal Galleons. From then on, Yizhar signed his works
with his pen name. He passed away in 2006.
1917:
In Warsaw, “the third Delegates’ Conference of the Zionist Organization of
Poland adopted a resolution favoring the recognition by the forthcoming
International Conference of the right of Jews to create a Jewish national
center in Palestine and” for Jews to enjoy “national autonomy in countries
where they live in great numbers.”
1917:
New York taxicab driver Abraham Groubtuck who became a bugler and battalion
runner for Company K of the 308th and was posthumously awarded a
Distinguished Service Cross, was drafted today
1917:
In Odessa, female Jewish workers “employed at the post and telegraph offices
resigned in protest again the antagonistic attitude of their colleagues.”
1917:
In Fastov, Russia, accusations of the Blood Libel were revived when a Jewish
shop keeper detained “a peasant woman on charges of theft.”
1917:
In Vilna, the outbreak of typhus continued while many soup kitchens suspended
operations because of a lack of supplies including a shortage of flour,
potatoes and barley.
1918(22nd
of Tishrei, 5679): Shemini Atzeret
1918(22nd
of Tishrei, 5679): Keni Liptzin, star of the Yiddish Theatre who was most
famous for playing the lead roles in two Jacob Gordin plays, Di shkhite and Mirele Efros, the former an attack on arranged marriage, the latter
a story about an embittered matriarch who is finally reconciled again to her
family, passed away today in New York.
1918:
In Warsaw, the Conference of Zionist Organization of Poland adopted “a
resolution favoring recognition by the forthcoming International Conference of
the right of Jews to create a Jewish national center in Palestine…”
1918:
As forces under Allenby continued to fight their way through Palestine Ottoman
forces surrendered to the Anzac Mounted Division today “rather than risk
slaughter by Arab irregulars.”
1918: Birthdate of comedian and comedic actor
Arnold Stang. Stang gained early fame on the Milton Berle Show. His voice would become famous to later
television generations in several animated series.
1919:
The Omaha Race Riot began today; an event for which the Omaha Bee, owned by
Victor Rosewater, played a role because of its previous “sensationalized”
reporting about attacks by black men
1919:
In London, consecration of the Artillery Lane Synagogue.
1919:
In Glasgow, “consecration of the new home of the Gertrude Jacobson Orphange.
1919:
Opening of the Jewish Hospital in London.
1919:
Birthdate of Prague native and jazz musician Fritz Weiss who would be forced to
perform by the Nazis at the
Theresienstadt concentration camp before being murdered at Auschwitz.
http://www.radio.cz/en/section/music/fritz-weiss-and-a-series-of-miraculous-wartime-jazz-recordings
1920(16th
of Tishrei, 5681): Second Day of Sukkoth
1920:
Rabbi I. Mortimer Bloom is scheduled to deliver a sermon “The Four Symbols”
this moring at the Hebrew Tabernacle on Broadway.
1920:
Funeral services for Jacob Schiff are scheduled to be held at 10 o’clock this
morning at Temple Emanu-el
1921:
In Vienna, “the former Rosa Zwim and David Hautzig, a bookbinder” gave birth to
pianist and Holocaust survivor Walter Hautzig. (As reported by Sam Roberts)
1923(18th
of Tishrei, 5684): Fourth Day of Sukkoth
1923:
Birthdate of Naphtali Kupferberg who would gain fame as Tuli Kupferberg, a poet
and singer who went from being a noted Beat to becoming, in his words, “the
world’s oldest rock star” when he helped found the Fugs,
1924(29th
of Elul, 5684): Erev Rosh Hashanah
1924:
Birthdate of Yekutiel (Kuty or Sulic) Sapir, the Ukrainian native married to
Mina Arison Sapir the mother of Micky and Shari Arison.
1924:
Birthdate of Rudolf Barshai, an orchestral conductor who built a prominent
career in the West after defecting from the Soviet Union in the 1970s.
1925(10th
of Tishrei, 5686): Yom Kippur
1925:
“George Hagedues, member of the Hungarian Parliament and president of Awakening
Hungarians, an anti-Semitic organization who “who had just concluded a heated
anti-Jewish address” …sank to the floor and died of a stroke” today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1925/09/29/99361331.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1926(20th
of Tishrei, 5687): Sixth Day of Sukkot
1926:
Birthdate of Mordechai “Mottie” Hod, the sabra from Degania who commanded the
Israeli Air Force during the Six Day War in 1967. If you did not know he was a real person you
would have thought he was created Ian Fleming or Tom Clancy.
1927(2nd
of Tishrei, 5688): Rosh Hashanah II
1927:
Josef “Yossele’ Rosenblatt led services today in a hall in Chicago.
1927:
Dr David de Sola Pool, the rabbi of the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue is
scheduled to “broadcast a talk on ‘Jewish Education’ this evening at 8 o’clock
over station WPCH.”
1928:
Shortstop Jonah Goldman made his major league debut with the Cleveland Indians.
1929:
Birthdate of General Mordechai “Mottie’ Hod, the commander of the Israeli Air
Force during the Six Day War.
1930:
“Soup to Nuts” a comedy written by Rube Goldberg, starring the comic trio that
would become known as “The Three Stooges” was released today in the United
States today by Fox Film Corporation.
1930(6th
of Tishrei, 5691): Forty-five-year-old H. Artie Dreyfus, the Pine Bluff, AR
born son of Isaac and Bertha Simon Dreyfus passed away today after which he was
buried at the Congregation Anshe Emeth Cemetery in Pine Bluff.
1930(6th
of Tishrei, 5691): Seventy-four-year-old Daniel Guggenheim, the son of Meyer
Guggenheim, the father of Ambassador Harry F. Guggenheim and “a member of the
firm of Meyer Guggenheim and Son passed away today
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=F50D13FC3F55147A93CBAB1782D85F448385F9
1931(17th
of Tishrei, 5692): Third Day of Sukkot
1931:
“Who Take Love Seriously,” “a German romantic comedy with a script by Henry
Koster and co-starring Otto Wallburg the WW I veteran who won the Iron Cross
and who would be murdered at Auschwitz was released today in Germany.
1931:
“The House of Connelly” starring Stella Adler, J. Edward Bromberg and Clifford
Odets which was staged by Lee Strasberg opened at the Martin Beck Theatre.
1932:
Birthdate of Sir Jeremy Issacs, the cousin of virologist Alick Isaacs, was a
successful British television producer as well General Director of the Royal
Opera House at Covent Garden.
1933:
Birthdate of Madeleine May Kunin,
a Swiss born American diplomat and politician. She was the Governor of Vermont
from 1985 until 1991. She also served as United States Ambassador to
Switzerland from 1996 to 1999. She was Vermont's first female governor as well
as the first Jewish governor of Vermont. She was also the first Jewish woman to
be elected governor of a U.S. state.
1933:
Five days after he had passed away, the funeral was held today at Congregation
Emanu-El for sixty-year-old New York native and publisher Sime Silverman, the
son of Louis J. Silverman, the husband of Harriett Freeman, the father of
Sidney Silverman, and grandfather of Syd Silverman who in 1905 founded Variety
which became “the Bible” of American show business
1934:
Birthdate of former Columbia University physics professor and co-founder of the
Sudbury Valley School Daniel A. Greenberg.
1934:
In Germany “Jews were virtually barred today from the business of distributing
newspapers and periodicals under a rule adopted by the Newsdealers Association
which no longer admits them to membership.”
1935(1st
of Tishrei, 5696): Rosh Hashanah
1935:
The second Broadway run of “Awake and Sing” a play by Clifford Odets, directed
by Harold Clurman with a cast that included Luther Adler, Stella Adler, Morris
Carnovsky, John Garfield and Sanford Meisner came to an end today.
1936:
As Germany’s economic situation worsened, Dr. Hjalmar Schact, the Economics
Minister held a meeting with the Reichsbank president provided a review of the
current currency situation but at which the Minister no announcement of
currency devaluation would take place.
1936:
In “Nazism Called Ungodly” published today Reverend Howard Chandler said “the
Nazi regime in Germany is definitely anti-Christian because it legislates
against Jews and thereby violation the fundamental principle of Chrisitinaity,
the union of all men into one family under the Fatherhood of God.”
1937:
Mussolini and Hitler gave speeches in front of 1,000,000 people in Berlin Italians would later try and portray
themselves as victims after they had switched sides during World War II. The reality is that the Axis Alliance was
seen by Hitler as a valuable tool in his plan to create a Third Reich that
would be Jew-free.
1937(23rd
of Tishrei, 5698): Simchat Torah
1937:
It was reported today that John M. Schiff, the grandson of the late Jacob M.
Schiff, will head the campaign to raise $250,000 for The Henry Street visiting
Nurse Service. Schiff is a partner in
Kuhn, Loeb & Co.
1937:
The Benny Goodman Quarter recorded a rendition of Al Jolson’s Avalon.
1938: The Munich Conference is attended by
French Premier Edouard Daladier, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain,
Italian dictator Benito Mussolini, and Hitler. Climaxing the Allies'
appeasement policy, France and Great Britain permit Germany to illegally annex
the Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia. Most of Europe breathes a sigh of relief
because war is averted. Daladier, observing the huge crowds awaiting him at the
Orly airport near Paris, fears that they will tear him apart for betraying
France's Czech ally. After he lands, he is relieved when his people throw roses
at him.
1938: The Czech representatives to the
conference, who had been forced to wait helplessly in the corridor outside the
conference hall, break down into sobs after hearing the news of the Allied
concessions to Germany. Also at the conference, Chamberlain signs a Friendship
Treaty with Germany without informing his French ally. Arriving home, he
triumphantly holds this scrap of paper up to the crowd that surrounds his
airplane and promises "peace in our time."
1939:
Germany and the Soviet Union partitioned Poland. The result was a sudden mass
expulsion of Jews during which thousands were robbed and hundreds murdered.
1939:
In a cynical attempt to consolidate their partition of Poland and give France
and Britain a chance to return to their previous policy of appeasement, Germany and the Soviet Union issued a
statement saying that now that they have settled “the problems arising from the
collapse of the Polish state” “it would serve the true interest of all peoples
to put an end to the state of war existing at present between Germany and
England and France.”
1939:
The Nazis turned Przemsyl over to the Soviets after they had murdered 600 Jews
living there.
1939:
Warsaw surrenders to Nazi Germany during World War II. The Holocaust comes to the Polish
capital. In the meantime, the French
army, which could have attacked Germany on its western border thus providing
real help to the Poles, remained, for all intents and purposes, inactive.
1939: The SS selects the start of the weeklong
Jewish festival of Sukkoth to forcibly deport more than 8000 Jews from Pultusk,
Poland.
http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/this_month/september/03.asp
1939(15th
of Tishrei, 5700): Sukkoth
1940(25th
of Elul, 5700) Parashat Nitzavim-Vayeilech; Leil Selichot
1940;
“In an effort to arouse public opinion over the plight of 500 Jewish refugees
detained on the Danube at Ruse, Bulgaria, the American Friends of Jewish
Palestine” today “made public a letter in which they called on members of
Congress to urge the State Department to make representations to the Rumanian
Government to allow them ‘to pass unmolested on their journey.’”
1941:
In Chicago, Polish-Jewish immigrants Ruchla and Berek Zielonka gave birth
University of Michigan graduate Shmuel Zielonka who gained fame as billionaire
businessman Samuel “Sam” Zell.
1941(7th
of Tishrei, 5702): The Massacre at Kamenets-Podolsk, in the Ukraine continued
for its second and final day during which 23,000 Jews were killed.
1941:
Start of the “first Heydrichiada,” the first declaration of martial in
Czechoslovakia proclaimed by Reinhard Heydrich, the man chaired the conference
that solidified “the Final Solution”
which immediately claimed hundreds of victims
1942(17th
of Tishrei, 5702): Chol Hamoed Sukkoth
1942(17th
of Tishrei, 5702): Seventy-two-year-old Pilsen native “Dr. Herman Vogelstein,
the former chief of the Liberal Synagogue in Breslau who life left Germany in
1938 and after having spent time in London arrived in New York in 1939 where he
was “active in the New York Board of Ministers and Association of Reformed
Rabbis” and who was the husband of “former Emmy Kosach” passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1942/09/30/85053228.pdf
1942(17th
of Tishrei, 5703): In another example of the mindless cruelty of the Nazis, 76-year-old
chemist Wilhelm Traube the great-grandson of a rabbi who actually was a member
of the “Evangelical Church of the Old Prussian Union” died in a Berlin prison
today
1942:
In Breda Dutch chess player Salo (Salomon) Landau and his family were captured
today as they tried to escape to Switzerland and were shipped to two different
concentration camps.
1942:
The Nazis activated a new train schedule that included the following daily
direct transports: one train a day from Radom to Treblinka, one train a day
from Cracow to Belzec, and one train a day would go from Lvov to Belzec. Each
train would consist of 50 cars and carry 2,000 Jews. By November two more
direct connections would be established: Lublin to Sobibor and Chlemno to
Sobibor.
1943:
After secretly making sure Sweden would receive Jewish refugees, Georg
Ferdinand Duckwitz, a German diplomat, leaked word of the plans for the
operation against Denmark's Jews to Hans Hedtoft, chairman of the Danish Social
Democratic Party. Hedtoft contacted the Danish Resistance Movement and the head
of the Jewish community, C.B. Henriques, who in turn alerted the acting chief
rabbi, Dr. Marcus Melchior.
1943(28th of Elul, 5703): Todays marks the two-day
slaughter of the Jews from the community from Split, Yugoslavia, the
concentration camp in Sajmiste, Yugoslavia.
1943: Over a forty-eight-hour period Roman Jews
deliver 50 kilograms of gold to the Gestapo in Rome, as ordered. Pope Pius XII
had offered to lend the Italian Jews 15 kilograms of gold if they could not
collect the full amount themselves. In the end, it does not matter. The Germans lied, taking the gold and the
Jews.
1943:
A convoy of taxis and private cars pulled up to the Gestapo headquarters in
Rome carrying the ransom of fifty kilograms in gold which was the payment
demanded to avoid the deportation of two hundred Jews.
1943:
The Last Nazi "Action taken" took place in Amsterdam. Two thousand
Jews were deported. This meant that
almost 110,000 Jews, which was 95% of Holland's former Jewish population, would
not survive the war.
1944(11th of Tishrei, 5705): Boys deemed too
short by Auschwitz's Dr. Josef Mengele are gassed.
1944: After a four-month hiatus, the Nazis
resume deportations from Theresienstadt, to Auschwitz. Among the 2499 prisoners
deported on this day is teenager Petr Ginz, a Czech of Jewish background who
was the guiding light behind Vedem (In the Lead), a secret
"magazine" created and distributed throughout Theresienstadt. More
than 1000 of these 2499 prisoners are gassed immediately.
1944(11th of Tishrei, 5705): One thousand of
the 2,499 Jews sent to Birkenau from Theresienstadt were gassed.
1944:
On his twenty-fifth birth jazz musician Fritz Weiss whose Ghetto Swingers were
forced to appear in “the propaganda movie The Fuhrer Gives a City to the Jews”
was murdered today at Auschwitz.
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1944:
German forces defeat British airborne troops at the Battle of Arnhem in the
Netherlands. This marked the end of
Operation Market Garden, Field Marshall Montgomery’s poorly planned, poorly
executed “plan” to defeat Germany with a single “masterstroke.” This ego-manical mission meant fuel and
supplies were defeated from Patton’s hard charging Third Army and that the war
would be prolonged which of course meant more Jews perishing in the Holocaust.
1944:
Soviet troops liberate Klooga Concentration in Kalooga, Estonia.
1945(21st
of Tishrei, 5706): Hoshana Raba observed for the first time since the end of WW
II.
1945:
The International League for the Rights of Man announced today that it had sent
a resolution called for the “unrestricted settlement of Jews in Palestine” to
President Truman, Prime Minister Attlee and British Colonial Secretary Hall
1946(3rd
of Tishrei, 5707): Shabbat Shuva
1946:
“Cloak and Dagger” a WW II thriller with a script co-authored by Albert Maltz,
with music by Max Steiner and co-starring Lili Palmer (Lili Marie Peiser) was
released today in the United States by Warner Brothers.
1946: Birthdate of rock star Helen Shapiro, the
native London’s East End who was the granddaughter of Polish Jewish immigrants
and the daughter piece-workers in the garment industry.
1947: Dora Meyerhardt was buried today in Jefferson
City, MO.
1947: HUAC
subpoenaed 24 "friendly" (some had previously testified during HUAC's
closed sessions in L.A.) and 19 "unfriendly" witnesses (mostly
Jewish), summoning them to Washington. The self-styled hunt for Communist, as
can be seen from HUAC’s activities took a definite anti-Semitic tinge.
1948(24th of Elul, 5708): Seventy-two-year-old
Kievan born, University of Chicago and Columbia educated engineer Dr. Louis
Cohen, the inventor of numerous radio and cable devices including the Cohen
Receiver who was the husband Ethel Cohen, with whom he had one daughter, passed
away today in Bethesda, MD, a suburb of Washington, D.C.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1948/09/29/101518843.pdf
1949: “An Israeli delegate protested to the General
Assembly's Social Committee today that "discriminatory" acts by the
Egyptian Government had prevented an Israeli representative from attending a
conference of the United Nations World Health Organization scheduled to be held
in Alexandria last month.”
1949: It was reported today that “former Secretary
of the Navy John L. Sullivan has accepted “the chairman of Brotherhood Week”
which is sponsored by the Conference of Christians and Jews
1950: Too late for the opening ceremonies, but just
in time for the start of the first day’s athletic competition, thirteen
athletes and four officials fly in from the Netherlands to compete in the
Maccabiah.
1950: Jewish athletes from around the world begin
playing in the elimination rounds for soccer, tennis and basketball as the
Maccabiah games get under way in stadiums in nine Israeli cities including Tel
Aviv, Jerusalem, Rehovoth and Petah Tikva.
1950: The movie version of “The Glass Menagerie”
directed by Irving Rapper, produced by Jerry Wald, with music by Max Steiner
and starring Kirk Douglas was released in the United States today.
1951: “Israel's
waterfront, its only border now open to the rest of the world, is being rapidly
improved to handle its increased shipping activity and expanding young merchant
marine, Raphael Recanati, general manager here of the Israel-America Line,”
said here today. Mr. Recanati spoke
glowingly of the improvements that have been made at the Port of Haifa and
plans to improve conditions at the underutilized facilities at Tel Aviv. He also reported that the Israel-America line
will add another freighter to its fleet, bringing to eight, the number of
vessels plying the waters between the east coast of the United and the ports of
Haifa and Tel Aviv.
1952(9th of Tishrei, 5713): As the war
drags on, the haunting tones of Kol Nidre take on an especially haunting sound
for American GI’s in Korea.
1952: Nineteen-year-old Susan Sontag and Philip
Reif, the author of Freud: The Mind of the Moralist gave birth to
“Princeton grad and Senior Editor at Farrar. Straus and Giroux” David Rieff.
1952( 9th of Tishrei, 5713): Eighty-one-year-old
Pittsburgh born businessman Charles Dreifus, the president of the Charles Dreifus
Company and a member of the Scrap Iron and Steel Advisory Committee of the War Industries
Board during WW I passed away.
1953(19th of Tishrei, 5714): Fifth Day of
Sukkoth
1953(19th of Tishrei, 5714): Joseph Jacob
Cohen, the native of Byeloruissia named Yosef Kahan who was a teacher at Mins
and a soldier in the Russian army before moving in 1903 to Philadelphia where
he gained fame as an anarchist and author, passed away today in Washington D.C.
http://yleksikon.blogspot.com/2019/01/yoysef-kahan-joseph-jacob-cohen.html
1953: In an attempt to re-write history, today, “The
Arab states renewed their six-year-old attack on Israel in the United Nations
today, accusing her of blocking the internationalization of Jerusalem and
blaming her for the plight of Arab refugees displaced by the Palestine war.
1954(1st of Tishrei, 5715): Rosh Hashana
1954(1st of Tishrei, 5715): Eighty-two-year-old
Eva Drux, the widow of Solomon “Sol” Peyser and the mother of Philip Sylvan
Peyser and Theodore Dux “Ted” Peyser passed away today after which she buried
in the Hebrew Cemetery in Washington, DC.
1954: Birthdate of Jerry Stahl, author of Permanent
Midnight, which was made into a movie starring Ben Stiller.
1955: The
Brooklyn Dodgers, whose roster included Sandy Koufax, lost to the Yankees in
the first game of the 1955 World Series.
1956(23rd of Tishrei, 5717): Simchat
Torah
1956: An Israeli delegation headed by Golda Meir
that included Moshe Dayan, Moshe Carmel and Shimon Peres left Lod airport for a
secret trip to Paris, the purpose of which was to explore the possibility of
coordinating an attack on Egypt,
1957(3rd of Tishrei, 5718): Shabbat Shuva
1957: ”Israel was reported today to be looking
forward to the use of nuclear power for irrigation, industry and the
development of mineral resources.”
1958(14th of Tishrei, 5719): Erev Sukkoth
1958(14th of Tishrei, 5719): Seventy-one-year-old
Troy, NY born director and screenwriter Albert Herman passed away today in Los
Angeles.
1959: In what is turning out to be a season for
baseball miracles, Larry Sherry pitches the Dodgers past the Braves to take a
one game lead in the National League playoff.
Another victory will mean the Dodgers will make it to the World Series
after having finished in 7th place in 1958.
1960: Warner Brothers released Dore Schary’s
“Sunrise at Campobello”
1961: “Question 7” the winner of “the national Board
of Review for Best Film,” directed by Stuart Rosenberg was released today in
the United States.
1962(29th of Elul, 5722): Erev Rosh
Hashana
1962: “"Our Jewish festive season will be a sad
one this time," a leader of the Jewish community in Algiers said today as
he watched elderly Jews lining up for their monthly free ration of flour, milk
powder and vegetable oil.
1963(10th of Tishrei, 5724): Yom Kippur
1963(10th of Tishrei, 5724): Eighty-seven-year-old
Cooper
Union graduate and NYU trained attorney Morris Gintzler, the Hungarian born son
Emil and Sally Gintzler, “the president of the Pulp and Paper Trading
Company and the husband of Rose Gintzler with whom she had had two daughter –
Selma and Dorothy passed away oday.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1963/09/29/94882989.pdf
1963: Whaam!,
now considered Roy Lichtenstein's most important work, debuted at an exhibition
held at the Leo Castelli Gallery that lasted until at October 24.
1964(22nd of Tishrei, 5725): Shmini Atzeret
1964(22nd of Tishrei, 5725): Harpo Marx passed away
at the age of 75. One of the famed Marx Brothers, Harpo was the one who did not
speak.
1966(14th
of Tishrei, 5727): Erev Sukkoth
1966(14th
of Tishrei, 5727: Sixty-six-year-old Julius Halpern, the son of Samuel and
Rivka Halpern and the husband of Mary Halpern passed away today in his hometown
of Buffalo, NY.
1968(6th
of Tishrei, 5729): Shabbat Shuva
1968(6th
of Tishrei, 5729): St. Louis native Cecilia R. Davidson, the representative of
the National Council of Jewish Women who testified “at several Congressional
hearings” where she identified Council’s members as “American citizens, many of
them who can boast of ancestors who came” to the United States “before the
Civil War,” said that one of the Council’s “major functions was to assist
foreign-born women, girls, and children in becoming part of the American
community” and “favored the Kerr-Coolidge Bill…so that the Council can really
devote itself to the work of assimilation.”
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/razovsky-davidson-cecilia
1968:
“After a run of 286 sparsely attended performances,” the curtain came down on
the original Broadway production of “Happy Time” a musical with a book by N.
Richard Nash (Nathan Richard Nusbaum) that won three Tony Awards.
1968:
Birthdate of Tel Aviv native and award-winning actress Asi Levi who combines
her career with raising two daughters from her first marriage to Yaniv Kaufman
1969(16th
of Tishrei, 5730): Second Day of Shavuot observed for the first time during the
Presidency of Richard M. Nixon
1970(27th
of Elul, 5730): Eighty-eight-year-old Lithuanian born Meyer Liberman the retired
board chairman of Arnold Con stable, Inc., the retail chain based on Fifth
Avenue, who at the age of 17 came to the United States where he opened a
chain of men’s stores wit his brothers Isaac and Phillip and who was active in
the United Jewish Appeal and the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies as well as
a founder and member of the board of
directors of the Jewish Center at 131 West 86th Street passed away today.
1970: Gamal Abdel Nasser, President of Egypt
died. Nasser had come to power as a
reformer in the 1950's. The Israelis had
hoped that Nasser would make peace with the Jewish state. However, Nasser saw himself as Pan Arab
leader who would unite the Arabs/Moslems in one unified entity from Morocco to
Indonesia while driving the Western Imperialists from this domain. (Yes, Osama
is not the first person to have this idea.) Nasser was committed to the
destruction of Israel. He did not hate the West because of Israel. As he said, he hated Israel because it was of
the West. Nasser was replaced by Sadat
who made history with his trip to Jerusalem and the Camp David Accords.
1971(9th
of Tishrei, 5732): Erev Yom Kippur; Kol Nidre
1971:
“The Last Movie” with a script by Stewart Stern and co-starring Henry Jaglom
was released in the United States today by Universal Pictures.
1973(2nd
of Tishrei, 5734): Second Day of Rosh Hashanah
1973(2nd
of Tishrei, 5734): Forty-two-year-old Norma Crane (Norma Anna Bella Zuckerman)
the actress who played the role of “Golde” in the film version of “Fiddler on
the Roof” passed away today.
https://www.nytimes.com/1973/09/29/archives/norma-crane-dead-played-tevyes-wife.html
1973:
In St. Johnsbury, VT, Congregation Beth-El celebrated the Bat Mitzvah of Amy
Aronoff, daughter of Gene and Sheila. It
was the first Bat Mitzvah to be held at the temple.
1973:
Three Jewish immigrants from Russia were taken hostage while traveling on a
train heading to Vienna after which they would be released when the Austrian
Government promised to close the transit camp at Schonau for Russian immigrants
en route to Israel. (“The 2 Palestinian terrorists arrested by the Austrians
were released and flown to an Arab country.”)
1974:
“Steam Heat” “show tune from the 1954 Broadway musical ‘The Pajama Game,’
written by Richard Adler and Jerry Ross was performed by the Pointer Sisters
tonight on prime-time television because it had become their signature song.
1975(23rd
of Tishrei, 5736): Simchat Torah
1975:
“Jewish activists in Kiev were not allowed to attend the Babi Yar commemoration
ceremony on the 34th anniversary of the Nazi massacre of Jews
1975: Birthdate of Ukrainian born, American gold
medal winning swimmer, Lenny Krayzelburg.
1976:
“One Day At A Time” starring Bonnie Franklin began its second season.
1978:
The Israeli Knesset endorsed Camp David Accord moving Egypt and Israel one step
closer to a peace treaty that has held for over a quarter of a century
1979:
“Time After Time” directed by Nicholas Meyer who also wrote the screenplay was
released today in the United States.
1979:
Today, President Carter nominated H. Lee Sarokin to a seat on the United States
District Court for the District of New Jersey.
1981:
In St. Johnsbury, Vermont, Congregation Beth-El, held its first services in its
new building.
1981:
Irwin Lee Cohen (an American judoka who represented the United States at the
1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany and his wife gave birth to 5-time US
national champion (2004, 2005, 2006, 2008, and 2009) American judoka Aaron
Cohen who earned a silver medal in the 2008 U.S. Olympic trials and a bronze medal
at the 2009 Maccabiah Games.
1982:
Today the Israeli government established the Kahan Commission which “four
months later found Israel to be indirectly responsible for the massacres, and
recommended Ariel Sharon's resignation.”
1982(11th
of Tishrei, 5743): Eighty-one-year-old actress Mabel Albertson the older sister
of actor Jack Albertson who may be best known for playing “the interfering
mother” on the sitcom “Bewitched” passed away today.
1983:
U.S. premiere of “The Big Chill” directed by Lawrence Kasdan who co-authored
the script
1984(2nd
of Tishrei, 5745): Second Day of Rosh Hashanah
1984:
“The Wild Life” a comedy co-starring Rick Moranis was released today in the
United States by Universal Pictures.
1984:
“Incredible Differences” a comedy produced by Nancy Meyers who co-authored the
script and co-starring Allen Garfield was released today in the United States
by Warner Bros.
1985(13th
of Tishrei, 5746): Ninety-one-year-old Hungarian born American photographer
Andre Kertesz passed away today. (As reported by John Durniak)
http://www.nytimes.com/1985/09/30/arts/andre-kertesz-91-pioneer-in-photography-dies.html
https://www.iphotocentral.com/showcase/showcase-view.php/24/0/34/1/1/0
1986:
“What Strangers? What Gates?” published today provides Roland Sanders
description of current conditions between Israelis and Arabs.
https://www.nytimes.com/books/98/12/06/specials/shipler-arab.html
1988:
The funeral of Paul Cowan is scheduled to take place today at 9 A.M. at Ansche
Chesed synagogue, at West End Avenue and 100th Street.
1990:
U.S. premiere of “Pacific Heights” directed by John Schlesinger.
1992(1st
of Tishrei, 5753): The Orthodox synagogue in Little Rock, AR is filled with a
throng of extra attendees – Jewish Clinton campaign workers celebrating Rosh
Hashanah
1992(1st
of Tishrei, 5753): Ninety-year-old Ephraim “Effie” Caplan, the son of Ada and
Yitzi Fievel Caplan and the husband of Dora Caplan passed away today in
Glasgow, Scotland.
1993:
Outfielder Shawn Green made his major league debut with the Toronto Blue Jays.
1994(23rd
of Tishrei, 5755): Simchat Torah
1994(23rd
of Tishrei, 5755): Seventy-eight-year-old Canadian born film-maker Harry
Saltzman who “produced early James Bond Films like ‘Dr. No’ and ‘Goldfinger’
passed away today in France.
https://www.nytimes.com/1994/09/29/obituaries/harry-saltzman-78-bond-film-producer.html
1995:
In “Negotiators, Arab and Israeli, Built Friendship From Mistrust” Serge
Schmemann reported from Jerusalem today that “There was a moment in the final,
crisis-ridden hours of the negotiations on the West Bank that brought home to
the heads of both the Israeli and the Arab teams what they had really achieved
in their long months together.” http://www.nytimes.com/books/98/06/07/reviews/savir-profile.html
1996:
“The Israeli police stormed into Jerusalem's Al Aksa Mosque compound today to
disperse stone-throwing youths as a wave of Arab-Israeli violence entered its
third day.’
1997:
In a review entitled “The Return of the Schlemiel,” William Goodman examines The
Complete Stories by Bernard Malamud whose “magic barrel overflows with
schnorrers and schleppers, hustlers and gulls, down-at-the-heel rabbis and
down-in the mouth students…”
1997:
Ninety-six-year-old Chinese diplomate Ho Feng Shan who “when he was
consul-general in Vienna during World War II, he risked his life and career to
save "perhaps tens of thousands" of Jews by issuing them visas,
disobeying the instruction of his superiors” passed away today in San Francisco.
https://www.yadvashem.org/righteous/stories/ho.html
1997:
The New York Times book section
included reviews by Jewish authors and/or about topics of Jewish interest
including Kirk Douglas's Climbing the Mountain: My Search for Meaning' an extension of his 1988 best-selling
autobiography, The Ragman's Son
1998:
Today “Boris Fyodorov was discharged from the position of the Head of the State
Tax Service.
1999(18th
of Tishrei, 5760): Fourth day of Sukkoth
1999(18th
of Tishrei, 5760): Seventy-nine-year-old Harry Rabin, the Chicago born son of
Miriam and Isidore Rabinowitz and the husband of “Libbie (Lee) Rabin” passed
away today in Palm Beach after which he was buried in Arlington Heights,
Illinois.
2000:
Ariel Sharon and an escort of over 1,000 Israeli police officers visited the
Temple Mount complex, site of the Dome of the Rock and al-Aqsa Mosque, the
holiest place in the world to Jews and the third holiest site in Islam
2000:
In “At Home With Mel and Patricia Ziegler” Peter Hellman described the latest
business for the founders of the Banana Republic.
2000:
Al Aqsa Intifada began. While there are
those who claim that the violence was a spontaneous response of Ariel Sharon to
the Temple Mount, the reality differs from what might politely be called an
Urban Myth. The Al Aqsa Intifada was the
orchestrated response of Arafat to the Camp David proposals of Ehud Barak and
backed by President Clinton. Arab
history is replete with using violence as a response to diplomatic
negotiations.
2001:
“Zoolander” a comedy produced by Scott Rudin and co-starring Jerry Stiller was
released today in the United States by Paramount Pictures.
2002(22nd
of Tishrei, 5763) Shabbat and Shmini Atzeret
2002Israeli
officials acknowledged today that a helicopter strike in Gaza City on Thursday
had failed to kill its target, Muhammad Deif a bomb-maker for the militant
group Hamas who has been on Israel's wanted list for a decade.
2003(2nd
of Tishrei, 5764): Second Day of Rosh Hashanah
2003(2nd
of Tishrei, 5764): Marshall N. Rosenbluth, a pioneer in unleashing and taming
nuclear fusion, the force that powers the sun and stars, passed away at the age
of 76. (As reported by William J. Broad)
2003:
The New York Times featured
reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or about topics of Jewish interest
including Act of Creation:
The Founding of the United Nations: A Story of Superpowers, Secret Agents,
Wartime Allies and Enemies, and Their Quest for a Peaceful World by Stephen C. Schlesinger and Real Jews :Secular vs. Ultra-Orthodox and the
Struggle for Jewish Identity in Israel by Noah J. Efron
2004:
George Soros “dedicated more money to the campaign and kicked off his own
multi-state tour with a speech: Why We Must Not Re-elect President Bush
delivered at the National Press Club in Washington.”
2005(24th
of Elul, 5765): Ninety-seven-year-old Leo Henryk Sternbach, the chemist who
created Valium passed away today. (As reported by Jeremy Pearce)
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/01/health/01sternbach.html?_r=0
2005: After
premiering at Sundance, “Forty Shades of Blue” directed by Ira Sachs, who
co-authored the screenplay was released today in the United States.
2005: The
Jerusalem Post reported two major archeological finds. First and foremost was a First-Temple period
seal discovered amidst piles of rubble from Jerusalem's Temple Mount, The small
- less than 1 cm - seal impression, or bulla, was discovered by Bar-Ilan
University archaeologist Dr. Gabriel Barkay amidst piles of rubble from the
Temple Mount This marks the first time that an written artifact was found from
the Temple Mount dating back to the First Temple period. The 2,600 year old
artifact, with three lines in ancient Hebrew, was discovered amidst piles of
rubble discarded by the Islamic Wakf that Barkay and a team of young
archaeologists and volunteers are sifting through on the grounds of a Jerusalem
national park. The seal, which predates the destruction of the First Jewish
temple in 586 BCE, was presented Tuesday night, September 27, to the press at
an archaeological conference at the City of David sponsored by the right-wing
Elad organization. Barkay said that the find was the first of its kind from the
time of King David. He has not yet determined what the writing is on the seal,
although three Hebrew letters -- thought to be the name of its owner -- are
visible on one of its line.
The
seal was found amidst thousands of tons of rubble discarded by Wakf officials
at city garbage dumps six years ago, following the Islamic Trust's unilateral
construction of an mosque at an underground compound of the Temple Mount known
as the Solomon's Stables. Secondly, in a separate major archaeological
development in Jerusalem, a Jewish ritual bath, or mikva, dating back to
the Second Temple period, and a First Temple Wall have been found in an
underground chamber adjacent to the Western Wall tunnels. The announcement came from Jon, Seligman,
Jerusalem regional archaeologist for the Antiquities Authority'.
2006(6th
of Tishrei, 5767): In St. Louis, MO, Rabbi Maurice Lyons, the husband of
Bernice Lyons Z”L and the father of Simcha and Tiki passed away today after
which he will be buried in Jerusalem.
2006:
A state memorial ceremony is held at Babi Yar, near the Ukrainian capital of
Kiev, where German and Ukrainian soldiers and policemen carried out the mass
murder. The memorial is being held on the first day of what would be a two-day
massacre. Only 10% of those who were
murdered have been identified. There has
been a renewed effort in the past year to identify more of the victims.
2006:
According to a report published today there has been a ten per cent increase in
the numbers of Jewish students at Vanderbilt University. Four years after
Chancellor Gordon Gee’s public call for increased numbers of Jewish students in
a 2002 Wall Street Journal article, Vanderbilt University has a student
population that is 12 percent Jewish and has made its way onto Reform Judaism
magazine’s list of the top 30 private schools that Jewish students choose.
2007: Former Chief
Rabbi Avraham Elkana Shapira, the 94-year-old spiritual giant of religious
Zionism, who passed away yesterday morning after a sudden deterioration in his
medical condition will be buried today with the burial procession, which is
expected to draw tens of thousands, slated to leave Harav
Yeshiva at 10:30 a.m.
2007(16th
of Tishrei, 5768): Second Day of Sukkoth
2007:
“The International Monetary Fund's 24 executive directors selected Dominque
Strauss-Kahn as the new managing director
2007:
The Archivist of the United States presented to Congress, the Administration,
and the American people the final report of the Nazi War Crimes and Japanese
Imperial Government Records Interagency Working Group (IWG) on which Elizabeth
Holtzman served as a public member.
2007:
In Patterson, NJ. Barnet Hospital which was named in honor of Jewish
philanthropist and former mayor Nathan Barnet, was scheduled to close after
having sought protection in Chapter 11 in August.
2007:
The "Save Our Simon" project raised 1.2 million dollars to be used in
the preservation of the Simon Theatre in Brenham, Texas. The Simon
Theatre was built by Alex Simon, a member of the Simon family of Brenham,
Texas, a family known for its business acumen and civic mindedness.
2008(28th
of Elul, 5768): Aaron Katz, who for more than 50 years publicly sought the
exoneration of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg passed away today at the age of
92.
2008: The Center for Jewish History presents "Hotel Terminus: The Life and Times of
Klaus Barbie” The 20th Anniversary Presentation. “This fall marks
the 20th anniversary of the release of the Academy-Award-winning documentary
directed by Marcel Ophuls about the notorious "Butcher of Lyons."
John S. Friedman, producer of the film, Dr. David Marwell, director, Museum of
Jewish Heritage-A Living Memorial to the Holocaust and chief of investigative
research for the Department of Justice during the hunt for Barbie, and Stuart
Klawans, film critic of The Nation, will provide an introduction.’
2008: The New York Times reviewed books by
Jewish authors and/or about topics of Jewish interest including Hurry Down
Sunshine by Michael Greenberg, Fallen
Giants’ History of Himalayan Mountaineering From the Age of Empire to the Age
of Extremes, co-authored by
Maurice Isserman and The King and the Cowboy: Theodore Roosevelt and Edward
the Seventh, Secret Partners by David Fromkin
2008: The Washington Post reviewed books by
Jewish authors and/or about topics of Jewish interest including American
Lightning: Terror, Mystery,
Movie-Making, and the Crime of the Century by Howard Blum and The Other Side of the Island by Allegra Goodman
2008:
Yefim Bronfman performed with the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra.
2009
(10 Tishrei, 5770): Yom Kippur
2009:
This morning, on Yom Kippur, Palestinian militants opened fire at IDF troops
patrolling the border fence between Israel and Gaza.
2009:
Iranian Revolutionary Guards are scheduled to test-fire a missile on today that
defense analysts have said could hit Israel and U.S. bases in the Gulf region.
Israel is especially sensitive to military action on Yom Kippur given what
happened in 1973
2009:
In Lexington, Mississippi, recitation of the Nei’lah services marks the final
scheduled worship service at the 104 year old white wooden synagogue that is
the home of Temple Beth el. While this
may be a bitter-sweet moment for the members of this Jewish community that has
existed since the 1830’s, their accomplishment of keeping the light lit for
almost two centuries is a challenge to us all.
A congregation like this thrives not because of a large staff of paid
professionals; it thrives because of the devoted participation of each
congregant.
2010:
The Center for Jewish History in New York is scheduled to present a program
entitled “Communism on Trial: Jewish Politics and the Slansky Affair.”
2010:
The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or or
special interest to Jewish readers including “Washington: A Life” by Ron
Chernow and “Poisoning the Press: Richard Nixon, Jack Andrson, and the Rise of
Washington’s Scandal Culture” by Mark Feldstein
2010(28th
of Tishrei, 5771): Eighty-eight-year-old cinema director and producer Arthur
Penn passed away today.
http://www.legacy.com/NS/Obituary.aspx?pid=145718568
2010(28th
of Tishrei, 5771): Ninety-two-year-old Aaron Katz, who publicly and actively
proclaimed the innocence of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg passed away today. (As reported by Dennis Hevesi)
http://travel.nytimes.com/2008/10/06/nyregion/06katz.html?ref=juliusrosenberg&pagewanted=all
2010:
Alan G. Hevesi, the former state comptroller, is poised to plead guilty to a
felony corruption charge after a lengthy investigation into his office’s
rewarding of pension investment business to firms that provided financial
benefits to Mr. Hevesi and his aides, people with knowledge of the case said
today
2010:
It was reported today that Dr. Eli Landuah has “The White Book,” the first pork
cookbook written for the Israeli market.
2011:
The Tel Aviv District Labor Court ruled this afternoon that railway workers
must return to negotiations with Israel Railways over plans to purchase new
train cars from an external company, Bombardier, and outsource maintenance of
those cars to that company.
2011:
Today The United States sought to press its wary allies in Egypt's army
leadership to bolster ties with Israel and stick to scheduled elections later
this year, even though a new set of leaders much less friendly to the US and
the Jewish state may be the winners. Ahead of a meeting between Secretary of
State Hillary Clinton and Egyptian Foreign Minister Muhammed Amr, the State
Department said it was encouraged by the way Egypt's military council has
defused tensions with its neighbor after protesters recently stormed the
Israeli embassy in Cairo.
2011: Egyptian Foreign Minister Mohamed Kamel
Amr said today that Israel and the Palestinians should resume talks with clear
terms of reference and clear timeline.
2011(29th of Elul, 5771): Erev Rosh
Hashanah
שנה טובה, כתיבה וחתימה טובה.
2012:
“Jews From Algeria” is scheduled to open at the Musee d’art et d’histoire du
Judaisme in Paris, France.
2012:
David Fisher’s “Six Million and One” is scheduled to be shown for the first
time at Lincoln Plaza Cinema in New York City.
2012:
An explosion struck a Jewish community building in the southern Swedish city of
Malmö early this morning, Swedish media reported. The blast caused no injuries.
“There has been an explosion. Something has detonated – we are certain of
that,” police officer Erik Liljenström said to local paper Sydsvenskan.
2012(12th
of Tishrei, 5773): Eighty-five-year-old Avraham Adan, the Israeli General who
commanded the 162nd Division which valiantly tried to stave off the
advances of the Egyptians during the first days of the Yom Kippur War, passed
away today.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4286715,00.html
2012:
Jordan has appointed a new ambassador to Israel over two years after the
previous envoy returned from Tel Aviv to Amman, a senior Jordanian official
told AFP and Ammon News today..The new ambassador, Walid Obeidat, is a career
diplomat in the Hashemite Kingdom's Foreign Service.
2012(12th
of Tishrei, 5773): Eighty-year-old advertising executive Stephen Frankfurt
passed away today.
2013:
In Spain, the towns of San Juan and Rio Jerte are scheduled to open a “Judaica
festival featuring a mock wedding to celebrate their lost Jewish Heritage.”
2013:
“In The Dark Room” a creation of Israeli filmmaker Nadav Schirman is scheduled
to be shown as the New York Film Festival opens for its 50th year.
2013(24th
of Tishrei, 5774): On Shabbat all over the world, Jews begin the Torah cycle
again with “Bereshit.” Am Yisroel Chai
2013:
No tickets are available for tonight’s showing of “Fill the Void” at the 17th
annual Jewish Film Festival in Dallas
2013:
“Three Israel Air Force jets were scrambled today to intercept unidentified
aerial objects amid suspicion these were unmanned drones that penetrated
Israeli airspace.”
2014:
The New York Times features reviews
of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers
including Faithful and Virtuous Night by Louise Glück, The
Undertaking by Audrey Magee, Consumed by David Cronenberg and The Shifts and the Shocks: What We’ve
Learned ---and Have Still to Learn – From the Financial Crisis by Martin
Wolf
2014:
Israeli filmmaker Nadav Schirman is scheduled to make a personal appearance at
the New York Film Festival.
2014:
The Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education a Next Generations
Get-Together which will help train those who will be speaking about the
Holocaust.
2014(4th
of Tishrei, 5775): T’zom Gedaliah observed
2014(4th
of Tishrei, 5775): Ninety-one Welsh poet Dannie Abse passed away today.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/11126588/Dannie-Abse-obituary.html
http://literature.britishcouncil.org/dannie-abse
2014(4th
of Tishrei, 5775): Forty-year-old actress Sarah Goldberg passed away today.
2014:
Prime Minister Netanyahu flew out of Ben-Gurion Airport today as he made his
way to New York where he will address the UN General Assembly tomorrow.
2014:
“A terrorist from Gaza, armed with a knife and spike, was caught today by the
Security Coordinator of Moshav Shokeda, not far from the religious agricultural
community, in the Sdot Negev Regional Council.” (As reported by Uzi Baruch and
Gil Ronen)
2014:
“Israeli archaeologists recently dug up an ancient subterranean structure,
parts of which date back to Roman times, just meters from the Temple Mount,
Channel 10 reported today.
2015(15th
of Tishrei, 5776): Sukkoth
2015:
As of today Square Enix should effectively own Taito, the company “founded in
1953 by Russian Jewish businessman Michael Kogan.
2015:
In Jerusalem, a central Sukkah at Safra Square which in the past has attracted
as many 100,000 visitors is scheduled “to be open for public use” starting
today.
2015:
“Relative calms was restored to the Temple Mount” this afternoon “after a
morning of clashes between Israeli security forces with Palestinian rioters”
who “barricaded themselves inside the al-Agsa Mosque” while “hurling rocks,
firebombs and firecrackers…”
2016:
“It Not About Ebisu” based on the work by Wendy Sandler, linguistic professor
at the University of Haifa and directed by Atay Citron an associate professor
in the theatre department at University of Haifa is scheduled to be performed
at the Panera Theatre.
2016:
“The world awoke” today “to an actuality it had never known before: a modern
state of Israel without Shimon Peres.”
2016: The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
is scheduled to livestream “a discussion about Denial, a new film
describing Deborah E. Lipstadt’s courtroom battle against notorious Holocaust
denier David Irving” who “in 1996 sued Lipstadt for libel in a British court.”
https://www.ushmm.org/online/calendar/eventDetails.php?event=MADENIALFILM0916
2016(25th
of Elul, 5776): Ninety three year old Nobel Peace Prize winner Shimon Peres Shimon Peres, “one of the last surviving pillars of Israel’s founding
generation” passed away on Wednesday in Israel. Baruch dayan ha’emet. Blessed
is the perfect judge.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/28/shimon-peres-former-israeli-leader-dies
2017:
In London, JW3 is scheduled to host a screening of “The Exception” a WW II film
about a Nazi officer sent to protect the exiled Kaiser.
2017:
Two residents of the Arab Israeli town of Umm al-Fahm, one of whom was 26 year
old Sa’id Ghasoube Mahmoud Jabarin were charged today with planning to carry
out a shooting attack on the Temple Mount compound in Jerusalem, similar to the
one that took place in July.
2018:
In Cedar Rapids, IA, the “Homecoming Showcase Concert” under the direction of
College Band Director William S. Carson, the leading musician in the Jewish
Community, is scheduled to take place this evening
2018:
During a “violent event orchestrated by Hamas,” today “20,000 Palestinian
rioters and terrorists swarmed Israel’s border with Gaza, ripping down the
security fence, burning tires and hurling over 100 bombs and grenades into
Israeli territory…”
2018:
Today, Mark Zukerberg’s Facebook said, “said that an attack on its computer
network had exposed the personal information of nearly 50 million users” making
this breach “the largest in the company’s history.”
2018:
The 92nd Street Y is scheduled to host an evening with Karl Ove
Knausgaard who “will answer questions about the sixth and last installment of
his autobiographical series “My Struggle,” which has received acclaim and
scrutiny for its no-holds-barred honesty in depicting his relationships.”
2018(19th
of Tishrei, 5779): Chol Ha Moed Sukkoth
2018(19th
of Tishrei, 5779): Seventy-two-year-old Tel Aviv born attorney Rachel
Hirschfeld who combined a passion for animal rights with the skills to
successfully producer “on and off Broadway productions” passed away today.
2019(28th
Elul, 5779): Parashat Nitzavim – Final Shabbat of 5779
2019:
In San Jose, CA, the Children’s Discovery Museum is scheduled to host “Jew
Year’s Eve, a
“Rosh Hashanah event for young adults with themed drinks, food and dancing.”
2019:
Tonight, in Jerusalem, Nuctorno Live is scheduled to host a concert starring
Alma Zohar, “one of the most notable artists of recent years.
2019:
In Oakland, CA, Danille Legesse and Morgan Julia are scheduled to hose
“Ethiopax Cooking Class” where participants will learn “how to make three
organic dishes for the High Holidays.”
2019:
In London, “The Jewish Museum and the Vagina Museum” are scheduled to join
forces to present a night dedicated to vaginas, vulvas and the gynecological
anatomy.”
2020(10th
of Tishrei, 5781): Yom Kippur
2020(10th
of Tishrei, 5781): Ninety-year-old Phi Beta Kappa CUNY graduate Maynard Elliot
Solomon, the co-founder of Vanguard Records passed away today.
2020:
Temple Israel of Boston is scheduled to present from its virtual sanctuary “a
traditional and majestic Yom Kippur Serve.”
2020:
After a full day of services, this evening Highgate Synagogue is scheduled to
host online a Shofar and Havdalah service for the entire community starting at
7:40 pm, London time.
2021:
Chabad of Fremont’s Jewish Women’s Circle is scheduled to resent a buffet and intimate concert for
Havdalah for women with music by singer-songwriter Ilana Herst.
2021:
Urban Adamah, Kehilla synagogue, Aquarian Minyan, Beyt Tikkun and Chochmat
HaLev are scheduled to present “Dancing in Shmita: A Simchat Torah Bash” which
is a multigenerational celebration with music by a klezmer band.
2021:
Congregation Or Atid is scheduled to present a “Torah Scavenger Hunt,” a search
through the unrolled Torah Scrolls with Rabbi Polisson
2021:
The American Dance Festival is scheduled to present the first screen of
“Outside,” a film by Israeli writer Etgar Keret and Israeli choreographer Inbal
Pinto.
2021:
This evening, in Cedar Rapids, the Hadassah Book Club is scheduled to discuss
Milk Fed by Melissa Broder either over zoom or in person.
2021(22nd of Tishrei,
5782): Shemini Atzeret; in the evening Simchat Torah celebration
2022(3rd of
Tishrei, 5783): Tzom Gedaliah; Fast of Gedaliah
2022: The LBI Book Club
is scheduled to present a discussion of When
Time Stopped by Ariana Neumann
2022: The Lappin
Foundation is scheduled to present “Danvers Stands Against Antisemitism,” with
participants joining “the march against antisemitism with the Town of Danvers
to take back the bridge that the neo-Nazis tarnished with their antisemitic
message of hate last week.”
2022: The McMullen Museum is scheduled to present a conversation
among Françoise Mouly, Art Spiegelman, and co-curator of the
exhibition “American Alternative Comics, 1980–2000: Raw, Weirdo, and
Beyond,” John McCoy.
2023: Stav Festival -the
Ultimate Fall extravaganza-, which will feature performances of over 100
Israeli artists, including original theater plays, music performances, and an
art exhibit crafted by talented Israeli artists is scheduled to open at the 14th
Street Y in New York City.
2023: The 39th
Haifa International Film Festival is scheduled to open today.
2023: AJHS, YIVO, and New
Lehrhaus are scheduled to host a discussion with Deborah Dash Moore author of Walkers
in the City: Jewish Street Photographers of Midcentury New York and
Manhattan Borough Historian Robert W. Snyder.
2023: The Illinois
Holocaust Museum is scheduled to host a commemoration of the 82nd
anniversary of the Babiy Yar Massacre “with words from dignitaries, a musical
performance, and a candle-lighting ceremony with local Survivors.”
2023: Interplay Jewish
Theatre, in partnership with the Maltz Museum and the Mandel Jewish Community
Center, both in Beachwood, OH is
scheduled to present a staged reading of “Amsterdam” by Israeli playwright Maya
Arad Yasur this evening in The J’s Stonehill Auditorium.
2023: Following a wave of
public criticism from those both inside and outside his coalition, National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir is
reportedly “canceling his much-criticized plan to hold a gender-segregated
prayer service” scheduled to be held today in Tel Aviv.
2024: As part of the
Tiftereth Israel Learning Series this afternoon, Rabbi Braver is scheduled to
lead a discussion on “ Mystical Metaphors: Creative Images for the High
Holidays.”
2024:
Based previous released figures given
the population fluctuations caused by Israelis leaving the country and those
making Aliyah there are approximately 9,999,000 people living in Israel, of whom 7.6
million are Jews and 2 million are Muslim Arabs (As reported by Stuart Winer).
2024(25th of Elul, 5784): Nitzavim and Vayeilech – A double
portion
for more see https://downhomedavartorah.blogspot.com/
2024:
In San Francisco, CJM is scheduled to present Co-authors Liz Kleinrock and
Caroline Kusin Pritchard as they discuss their new children’s book What
Jewish Life Looks Like that explores the unlimited and diverse ways to look
and be Jewish.
2024:
In the evening Selichot
2024:
Temple of Israel of Boston is scheduled to present “S’lichot Spiritual Practice
Labs and Candlelit Service”
2024:
As September 28th begins in Israel, an unprecedented wave of anti-Semitism that
has included Hamas supporters calling for Zionist passengers on a New York
subway to raise their hands, sweeps the United States and the Hamas held
hostages begin day 359 in captivity.
(Editor’s note: this situation is too fluid for this blog to cover so we
are just providing a snapshot as of the posting at midnight Israeli time)
